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单词 cathedral
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cathedral
noun[C]
uk
/kəˈθiː.drəl/us
/kəˈθiː.drəl/
A2
a verylarge, usuallystone,buildingforChristianworship. It is thelargestand mostimportantchurchof adiocese:
（一个教区内的）总教堂，大教堂
Salisbury Cathedral索尔兹伯里大教堂
picture of cathedral
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  • I waswokenup by thechimesof the cathedralbells.
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  • Aguideconductstoursof the cathedral everyafternoonat 2.00.
  • The new cathedral wascompletedandconsecratedin 1962.
  • In the cathedralvaultstheairwasdankandstale.
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(Definition ofcathedralfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

cathedral| American Dictionary

cathedral
noun[C]
us
/kəˈθi·drəl/
alargeandimportantchurch,esp. one that is thecenterof alargearea
(Definition ofcathedralfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Not much less challenging was accommodating within this structure the cathedrals and the wide variety of clergy holding offices in them.
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They likewise acquired distinctively civic overtones ascathedralclerics employed them in honour of local patron saints.
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There is illuminating discussion of thecathedralcemetery (illustrated in both modern and sixteenthcentury plans), and the possible positioning of burials in it.
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The respective rights of bishops, chapters of canons, and others, to ringcathedralbells were carefully defined.
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Since then at least eight other cathedrals have been similarly memorialised and several othercathedralhistories are currently in the process of being written.
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The seventythree plates are black-and-white photographs, most of them well-produced, and plans of five of the cathedrals treated in the text.
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The juxtaposition of railway station andcathedralrepresented, like the placement of the paintings and sculpture, the ambivalence of the nineteenth century.
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In the seventeenth century there was a pronounced return to cathedrals as burial places.
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Likewise, they built chapels within their palaces, thereby appropriating a personal sacred space to replace that lost to the canons in thecathedral.
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The close links with the government can be seen in the types of people recruited to thecathedralpriory.
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Their discussion of thecathedraldoor makes another point, however.
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It is an improper way of carving up thecathedral, not a functional feature that is being used for something other than its intended function.
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So on the whole thecathedralclergy and its noble families were responsible for the economic support of the chapter.
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Almost all the main furnishings of thecathedralare included.
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Ximenes aimed to use thecathedralboth as the center of his cartographical grid and as an instrument of solar physics.
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